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Whitepaper: How to Break the Excel Habit in Sourcing
For those in sourcing and procurement roles, it may come as a surprise that 85% of sourcing personnel still turn to spreadsheets to collect and/or analyze supplier response data for RFIs and RFPs. It’s time to take a serious look into why eSourcing adoption isn’t stronger, given the investments made and benefits that can be realized. This whitepaper reveals market research findings in this area, identifies root causes, and highlights how a best-in-class eSourcing tool can augment suite solutions to reduce spreadsheet reliance and improve eSourcing adoption and results.
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Attack the Gaps in Your Sourcing Toolkit with an Advanced Sourcing Solution
To achieve the next level of spend under management and cost reductions, leading companies are adopting more advanced, strategic sourcing solutions, like that offered by CombineNet ASAP, to augment their existing technology investments. Click here for more
For those in sourcing and procurement roles, it may come as a surprise that 85% of sourcing personnel still turn to spreadsheets to collect and/or analyze supplier response data for RFIs and RFPs. It’s time to take a serious look into why eSourcing adoption isn’t stronger, given the investments made and benefits that can be realized. This whitepaper reveals market research findings in this area, identifies root causes, and highlights how a best-in-class eSourcing tool can augment suite solutions to reduce spreadsheet reliance and improve eSourcing adoption and results.
Learn More.
Attack the Gaps in Your Sourcing Toolkit with an Advanced Sourcing Solution
To achieve the next level of spend under management and cost reductions, leading companies are adopting more advanced, strategic sourcing solutions, like that offered by CombineNet ASAP, to augment their existing technology investments. Click here for more
Today, the benefits of sourcing from low cost countries and selling into new foreign markets are driving the vast majority of enterprise-class companies to go global. However, many of these companies are still making due with sub-standard global processes and technologies borrowed from domestic organizations.
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In this Webcast, you'll learn what a supply chain control tower entails, the key elements that comprise the control tower and how your supply chain can benefit from the control tower.
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Comprehensive information about global sourcing and procurement strategies, covering software, spending analysis, order management, supplier evaluation and e-Procurement.
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GTM Case Study: How a Fortune 500 CPG Company Saved $12M by Reexamining Its Ocean SpendingHow to Compare Actual Landed CostsWarehousing Efficiency and Effectiveness in the Supply Chain Process
Posted 10/15 · 11:54 AM · SCMR Editorial
Part 3 in our series on "Back to Basics - Managing The Basic Supply Chain Functions." Warehousing Efficiency and Effectiveness in the Supply Chain Process - Where Are We Now? What’s Next? This article will address “back to the basics” that are fundamental for warehouses to achieve both efficiency and effectiveness in supply chains, and provide some perspective on current challenges and the future.
Procurement risk management: What it takes to be a leader
Posted 10/14 · 09:44 AM · LM Editorial
Risk is part of business. It’s a significant, permanent reality faced by virtually every organization. Without risk, business as we know it might not exist. To compete, grow, and capture benefit, companies need to take chances. It’s what businesses do.
Transportation Decision-Making in an Integrated Supply Chain
Posted 10/08 · 10:27 AM · SCMR Editorial
Part 2 in our series on "Back to Basics - Managing The Basic Supply Chain Functions." This article addresses the key decision levels that need to be addressed for transportation to make its greatest impact in the integrated supply chain. These levels address long-term decisions, lane operations, choice of mode or carrier, and dock level operations.
Is It Time for a Rebirth of Strategic Sourcing? – part 2
Posted 10/03 · 09:46 PM · SCMR Editorial
How do you keep the organization interested? How do you re-energize everyone? Here are a few ideas to consider out of a long list of possibilities
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Managing The Basic Supply Chain Functions
Posted 10/01 · 09:47 AM · SCMR Editorial
Supply Chain Management Review introduces a new series called “Back to Basics.” It’s a look into how excellence in the core logistics and supply chain activities leads to overall business success. The articles in this six-part series are written by educators from the University of Tennessee, one of the foremost schools in supply chain education. Each week the series focuses on a different supply chain competency; transportation, warehousing, sourcing and procurement, returns management, post-sales service, and partnership and collaboration.
Is It Time for a Rebirth of Strategic Sourcing?—Part 1
Posted 09/30 · 09:07 AM · SCMR Editorial
The blogosphere has been alive recently with a debate about the alleged death of strategic sourcing.
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More on Negotiations
Posted 09/17 · 08:03 AM · SCMR Editorial
The unstable economy presents many challenges for Procurement professionals.
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New Interest in Supply Chain Analytics
Posted 09/10 · 08:35 AM · SCMR Editorial
Supply chain analytics enables you to collect, store, and analyze data in a way that leads to better supply chain decisions.
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Keeping it Simple
Posted 09/03 · 12:26 PM · SCMR Editorial
The recently concluded SCOPE West conference in Las Vegas yielded some remarkable information, and delivered on its promise of fresh insight.
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Need a Breakthrough? Try Business Process Outsourcing
Posted 09/01 · 11:09 AM · SCMR Editorial
With conventional approaches to supply chain cost cutting pretty much exhausted, what’s the next big area of opportunity? It may well be Business Process Outsourcing—a strategy of outsourcing supply
chain processes in a way that increases agility and responsiveness while minimizing capital investment. In adopting this approach, the SCOR resources from the Supply Chain Council can give a major assist.
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